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Thinking About Wikileaks
Albert Wenger – Dec 4, 2010
There is so much going on with Wikileaks that it’s hard to know where to start. Here are some of the questions that I am thinking about:Will the cable leaks make diplomacy harder or easier? Is the answer different for [...] Read more
10gen Fills The Tank
Albert Wenger – Dec 3, 2010
The team at 10gen has done an amazing job building and supporting MongoDB, a NoSQL database that supports both agile development and performance/scaling. This combination is particularly well suited to web development where frequent or continuous deployment are becoming the [...] Read more
What I Learned from my Google-Groupon Post
Albert Wenger – Dec 2, 2010
Yesterday’s post about the Google-Groupon deal generated a lot of views and comments and two important lessons. First, on a “meta” level there was a lesson about blogging. While I had known this to some degree before, for stimulating dialog [...] Read more
Google Buying Groupon is a Flawed Idea
Albert Wenger – Dec 1, 2010
On one hand I can understand Google’s aggressive interest in Groupon. Groupon appears to be one of the few companies that has cracked the code on making money from local businesses. Groupon’s revenues are rumored to be around $50 million [...] Read more
The $100 million+ TV over IP Startup
Albert Wenger – Nov 30, 2010
Whenever I have an idea for a blog post, I add it to a running list. The idea for today’s post came to me during Web 2 Summit and I wish I had posted it then because it would look [...] Read more
More on Internet Freedom
Albert Wenger – Nov 29, 2010
Over the holiday several events happened that illustrate that we are facing a clear and present danger to the freedom of the Internet.It started with the US government seizing a bunch of domains that were accused of participating in copyright [...] Read more
Tasty Labs
Albert Wenger – Nov 24, 2010
We are excited to be investing in Joshua Schachter's new company Tasty Labs (together with Andreessen Horowitz and a terrific group of angels). We enjoyed working with Joshua at Delicious -- in my case "working with" was literal -- and [...] Read more
Tasty Labs
Albert Wenger – Nov 24, 2010
I am very excited to be working with Joshua again. You can read (a bit) more on the Union Square Ventures blog about our investment in Tasty Labs. Read more
Mobile is the New Online
Albert Wenger – Nov 23, 2010
Fred has a post today titled “Mobile First, Web Second” http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/mobile-first-web-second-continued.html which is spot on. There is an important additional reason for pursuing this strategy: on the web everything is about displacement, on mobile there is still mostly open space. [...] Read more